Step 1: HTML

Step 2: Font Styles

Use two single-quotes to start/end italic and three single-quotes to start/end bold:

''italic'''''bold'''

Use five single-quotes and you get bolded italic:

'''''bolded italic'''''

Two tildes start/end strikethrough text:

~~strikethrough~~

A single caret starts/ends superscript:

^superscript^

Two commas start/end subscript.

,,subscript,,

You can combine different modifiers (as above), but you cannot repeat the same modifier to get "extra" effect.

The exclamation point "!" tells parser to not process the characters which follow it, so pay attention to put a space after !, e.g. when ending bold (see below).

Here are some examples of using the markup for emphasis, as well as "mistakes" when trying to combine modifiers:

'''!''' can be bold too''', and '''! ''' ''''''bold-bold'''''' ends up being bold-italic with leading/trailing apostrophes ''''italic-italic'''' ends up being bold with leading/trailing apostrophes ~~~~strike-strike~~~~ does nothing (strikethrough an empty string at each end) '''''bold italic''''' '''''~~bold italic strike~~''''' __underline__ doesn't work `monospace` doesn't work either

! can be bold too, and ! 'bold-bold' ends up being bold-italic with leading/trailing apostrophes'italic-italic' ends up being bold with leading/trailing apostrophesstrike-strike does nothing (strikethrough an empty string at each end)bold italicbold italic strikeunderline doesn't work`monospace` doesn't work, either

The subscripts and superscripts are useful with mathematical and chemical notation:

pi^1/2^ * R^3^ = c^4+5^ H,,2,,(SO,,3,,),,4,,^++^

pi1/2 * R3 = c4+5H2(SO3)4++

Regular text^super^super-super^back to super^back to regular Regular text^super,,super-sub,,back to super^back to regular Regular text^super ''italic'' ~~strike~~ super^ back to regular

Regular textsupersuper-superback to superback to regular (can't nest supers)Regular textsupersuper-subback to superback to regularRegular textsuper italicstrike super back to regular

1.1 Underlining

There is no underline in IblesFormatting. Zachninme provided this work-around: to underline use a combination of strikeout and superscript. Pretty clever, eh?

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